I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.